MY ANSWERS TO THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE ************************************************ Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness? A: Playing Bach on the organ in an empty church. Q: What is that you most dislike in others? A: Intolerance. Q: What do you consider the most overrated virtue? A: Charm and a perfect set of white gleaming teeth. Q: What do you consider your greatest achievement? A: The fact that I have been writing for thirty-five years and I am still alive. Very few Armenian writers can say as much. Q: Your favorite word? A: Compassion. Q: Your favorite writers? A: Plato, Chekhov, Toynbee, Sartre, Zarian, Koestler, Simenon, Chandler, Lesley Blanch...among many others. Q: Who are your heroes in real life? A: Socrates, Diogenes, Gandhi. Q: Your favorite heroes of fiction? A: Jack Bower, Jason Bourne, Bugs Bunny, and Walker in POINT BLANK. Q: Your happiest experience? A: Receiving a letter from Saroyan saying he reads everything I write. Q: Who is the greatest love of your life? A: J.S. Bach. Q: Which words or phrases do you most overuse? A: “If you know what I am saying,” when I dont know what I am saying. Q: On what occasion do you lie? A: When asked by a writer to assess his work. Q: How would you like to die? A: Suddenly, in my sleep. Q: Which talent would you most like to have? A: The ability to sing Neapolitan serenades. Q: What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? A: Self-doubt. Q: What is the trait you most deplore in others? A: Subservience. Q: What is your most marked characteristic? A: Timidity. Q: Which living person do you most despise? A: Flunkies, hirelings, and brown-nosers. Q: What is your favorite journey? A: Greek islands, Italian cities, South-American jungles, and Caucasian mountains. Q: If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? A: A concert pianist. Q: What do you regard as the lowest of misery? A: To be a homeless refugee in a poor country under an authoritarian regime in time of war. Q: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? A: To be more diplomatic in my dealings with my fellow men. #
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